Kaspersky Lab appoints Westcon Middle East to boost enterprise business growth across the GCC and Yemen

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, today announced the appointment of Westcon Middle East, a leading value-add distributor of convergence, security, networking and mobility products and services, across the Middle East, Pakistan and North Africa regions, as authorized Corporate Distributor for Kaspersky Lab’s enterprise products and solutions across the GCC region.

Westcon Middle East will leverage its extensive network of over 1200 resellers to further reinforce the growth of Kaspersky Lab’s enterprise business; in addition the company will also represent Kaspersky Lab by extending Kaspersky Lab’s corporate solutions directly to corporate customers with large networks.

Under this partnership, Westcon Middle East will be responsible for extending Kaspersky Lab’s leading portfolio of corporate security solutions to an extensive network of channel partners in the markets of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Yemen. In addition, Westcon Middle East will also invest in on ground

pre-sales, technical and maintenance resources to effectively support both new and existing Kaspersky Lab customers in the GCC and Yemen.

Commenting on this new partnership, Tarek Kuzbari, Managing Director, Kaspersky Lab Middle East said, “Being closer to customers and partners remains imperative for Kaspersky Lab’s business growth and success. We believe that this partnership with Westcon will not only help us expand our channel presence in GCC but also help us achieve targeted growth in the Middle East region, while bringing customers closer to the brand, with easier and direct access to the company’s latest technologies and experts. this partnership comes in line with our vision and commitment to contributing to the development of safer enterprise environment for enterprises across the Middle East and the globe.”, continued Kuzbari.

Steve Lockie, Group Managing Director of Westcon Middle East said, “We are very proud to have partnered with a respected vendor like Kaspersky Lab who we believe will add considerable value to our existing portfolio of leading security solutions. Our partnership with Kaspersky Lab will see us further cement our position as a market leading distributor with the ability to deliver outstanding support to our customers and channel partners. To successfully achieve the aims of this partnership we will continue to support our resellers with value add support including technical expertise, sales consultancy, training and development in addition to logistics services.”